.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 268 132
Rank change year-on-year -59 -136 +34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 410 439 1,872
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.18% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.32% 5.66% 11.08%
Number of salaries quoted 377 388 1,782
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,061 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,710 7,754 16,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.02% 20.86% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,817 5,906 14,111
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -58 120 £55,000 - 39
London -54 76 £80,000 - 57
North West -26 66 £55,000 -8.33% 23
South East -45 66 £60,000 +14.29% 55
Midlands -23 63 £65,000 +23.81% 20
East Midlands -18 47 £65,000 +23.81% 10
South West -27 44 £55,000 -24.14% 15
East of England -25 33 £90,000 +80.00% 26
North East -17 29 £65,000 +44.44% 7
Yorkshire -80 25 £42,500 -29.17% 10
West Midlands -41 16 £65,000 +11.59% 10
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.71%) IIS
3 2 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 243 (59.27%) Azure
2 85 (20.73%) AWS
3 64 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (11.46%) Serverless
5 44 (10.73%) SaaS
6 37 (9.02%) Power Platform
7 35 (8.54%) GitHub
8 33 (8.05%) Azure Logic Apps
9 23 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (4.63%) Azure Functions
11 17 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (3.90%) Power Automate
12 16 (3.90%) PowerApps
13 15 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (3.41%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.41%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (3.41%) Azure AKS
14 14 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.73%) Internet
2 2 (0.49%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.24%) AMQP
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (37.80%) SQL Server
2 52 (12.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 32 (7.80%) Power BI
4 31 (7.56%) NoSQL
5 26 (6.34%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.17%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.93%) MySQL
9 10 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.20%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.22%) Redis
12 2 (0.49%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (11.95%) Git
2 8 (1.95%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.22%) JIRA
5 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.73%) NUnit
6 3 (0.73%) Vite
7 2 (0.49%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.49%) MSTest
7 2 (0.49%) webpack
8 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.24%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (14.39%) Finance
2 45 (10.98%) Social Skills
3 15 (3.66%) Games
4 12 (2.93%) Law
5 11 (2.68%) Banking
6 9 (2.20%) Public Sector
7 8 (1.95%) Front Office
7 8 (1.95%) Retail
8 6 (1.46%) Automotive
8 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (0.98%) Advertising
10 4 (0.98%) Legal
10 4 (0.98%) Marketing
11 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.49%) Local Government
12 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 293 (71.46%) Developer
2 133 (32.44%) .NET Developer
3 117 (28.54%) Senior
4 103 (25.12%) Software Developer
5 74 (18.05%) Senior Developer
6 73 (17.80%) C# Developer
7 54 (13.17%) Lead
8 52 (12.68%) Full-Stack Developer
9 51 (12.44%) Software Engineer
10 48 (11.71%) C# .NET Developer
11 30 (7.32%) Lead Developer
12 28 (6.83%) .NET Software Engineer
12 28 (6.83%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (6.59%) Senior Software Developer
14 24 (5.85%) .NET Software Developer
15 23 (5.61%) Applications Developer
15 23 (5.61%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 21 (5.12%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (4.88%) Lead Software Developer
17 20 (4.88%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (100.00%) .NET
2 134 (32.68%) ASP.NET
3 87 (21.22%) React
4 85 (20.73%) .NET Framework
5 61 (14.88%) RESTful
6 59 (14.39%) Blazor
7 57 (13.90%) HTML
8 55 (13.41%) ASP.NET Core
9 54 (13.17%) CSS
10 52 (12.68%) Entity Framework
11 44 (10.73%) AngularJS
12 40 (9.76%) Vue
13 29 (7.07%) Node.js
13 29 (7.07%) REST
14 25 (6.10%) ASP.NET MVC
15 22 (5.37%) ASP.NET Web API
16 17 (4.15%) JSON
17 14 (3.41%) Microsoft Graph
18 13 (3.17%) AWS CDK
18 13 (3.17%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 15 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.68%) Sports Betting
6 10 (2.44%) Hedge funds
6 10 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.46%) 3D Graphics
8 5 (1.22%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.22%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (0.98%) Social Network
10 3 (0.73%) Digital TV
10 3 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.49%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.49%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.17%) VMS
2 7 (1.71%) Windows
3 5 (1.22%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (33.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 131 (31.95%) Agile
3 111 (27.07%) Software Engineering
4 109 (26.59%) CI/CD
5 97 (23.66%) DevOps
6 71 (17.32%) Microservices
7 62 (15.12%) MVC
8 59 (14.39%) Containerisation
9 52 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (11.71%) SDLC
11 37 (9.02%) Collaborative Culture
12 36 (8.78%) Clean Code
13 34 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
14 33 (8.05%) Mentoring
14 33 (8.05%) OO
15 32 (7.80%) Analytics
16 31 (7.56%) Collaborative Working
17 30 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
17 30 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (7.32%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 361 (88.05%) C#
2 174 (42.44%) SQL
3 116 (28.29%) JavaScript
4 59 (14.39%) TypeScript
5 33 (8.05%) PowerShell
6 17 (4.15%) Python
7 12 (2.93%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (2.44%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.46%) Bash
9 6 (1.46%) Java
10 4 (0.98%) Bicep
11 3 (0.73%) PHP
11 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) F#
Qualifications
1 27 (6.59%) Degree
2 11 (2.68%) AWS Certification
2 11 (2.68%) AWS Certified Developer
2 11 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.44%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.22%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.98%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.66%) QA
2 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.49%) GDPR
2 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.49%) ITGC
2 2 (0.49%) SLA
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (19.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (15.61%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.80%) Terraform
3 2 (0.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 124 (30.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.93%) Adobe
3 7 (1.71%) Google
4 5 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (0.98%) Facebook
6 3 (0.73%) Workday
7 2 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.49%) Foundry
7 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.24%) Apple
8 1 (0.24%) Databricks
8 1 (0.24%) IBM
8 1 (0.24%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle
8 1 (0.24%) Sony
8 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.24%) YouTube